Quotes About Memory

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes into people's minds and that's the only place that it ever exists. And it never exists truly; it only exists in the way that people think they remember it. But it's a really powerful way to tell a story and to pass something on.

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

Making a film is a very difficult thing to do, but the experience of 'Best F(r)iends' is a great memory.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her.

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

I knew about my grandmother's husband who died in the Albion coal disaster. But I didn't know a brother died in the same disaster because of the health and safety, which was terrible.

I am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now.

I've got a really amazing ability to forget and disregard information that comes in my brain.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

There is no compression algorithm for experience.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it might like in fiction, but I didn't know how to start.

I remember the time I had nits. It all started with an itchy head. I assumed I had a dry scalp and that maybe my extensions had grown out too long.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

Sometimes I'm like Dory from 'Finding Nemo.' I can't remember facts.

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.

A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No.